Was Back to AtD Music of the Spheres--Not

[Ian Livingston]

Even though I am losing my hearing, my brain makes up for the loss of
external stimuli by increasing the volume of the tinnitus.

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Prashant Kumar <
siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sound is apparently the last sense fighter pilots lose before complete
> loss of consciousness.
>
> Prash
>
> On 29 July 2012 17:16, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> makes sense to me ... the hopi's say that the origin of consciousness
>> began with the apprehension of sound.
>>
>> sent from phillip's iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> In a footnote to my posted suggestion that perhaps one level going on
>> here in the Lydian-Phrygian discussion was that the the disappearance
>> as felt belief in the devil (in the music) meant that via Orpheus and
>> Pythagoreanism
>> the devil came back as The Return of the Repressed--as a new 'mythic'
>> belief
>> so to speak,a  modern Freudian-caused one, I have stumbled across
>> this from Yeats's "A Vision"....(Yeats did give us 'As above, so below"
>> from this book
>> too, I believe):
>>
>> "It is as though myth and fact, united until the exhaustion of the
>> Renaissance, have now fallen
>> so far apart that man understands for the first time the rigidity of
>> fact, and calls up, by that
>> very recognition, myth"...---W.B.
>>
>> And from Safranski's bio of Nietzsche: "Music precedes the Tower of
>> Babel...only universal
>> form of communication....."The related notion that music is closer to our
>> essence than any other
>> product of our consciousness goes back to the beginnings of history. This
>> notion underlies both
>> Orphic and Pythagorean doctrines."....and more including Kepler and the
>> Music of the Spheres,
>> "music as the language of the cosmos and as figured meaning."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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